Not because it is that good, but because it is almost exclusively in English, a language that neither of the two protagonists nor the screenwriter speak natively. It’s difficult to critique the writing of this movie. Alba grabs Natasha’s hand, and like clockwork, Natasha discloses that she’s “never gone up to a woman’s room before”. Alba seduces Natasha to come up to her hotel room with pick up lines so aggressive and dull it’s astounding that they work. Natasha is flying back to Moscow the next day Alba is leaving for Spain. I mean, there is a pillow fight! And while one of the actors does identify as a part of the LGBT community, that hardly takes the sting out of the heteronormative male gaze under which these characters’ experience exist.Īlba (Elena Anaya) and Natasha (Natasha Yarovenko) meet at a bar on their last night in Rome. Julio Medem clearly built this movie on what is likely nothing more than fantasy and conjecture. Let’s start with the fact that Room In Rome, the story of two women who meet and fall in love - or at least lust, was written and directed by a straight man. Shall we start with the reliance on the trope of homosexual experimentation? Using adultery as a plot device? The child molestation backstory? The miscarriage one? Oh, the embarrassment of riches is overwhelming. Where does one start w hen reviewing Room In Rome? There is almost too much to unpack.

Room in rome 2010